Dr. Eric Mason came out to Seattle from his church in Philadelphia to preach the final sermon in our Best Sermon Ever series. Mars Hill helped support Epiphany Fellowship for many years, and now he serves on the leadership of the Acts 29 church-planting network. Dr. Mason preached “Breaking Free from Strongholds” out of 2 Corinthians 4:7–12 and Judges 6:11–14, 25–27. Here are some of the highlights.
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The thing that makes an unbeliever different than a believer is that a believer has help with their mess. #bestsermonever
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An encounter with God changes everything. #bestsermonever
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The goodness about the gospel is God comes down. Man doesn’t come up. #bestsermonever
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If you can get yourself saved, you don’t need saving. #bestsermonever
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Salvation is about God coming after people who couldn’t come after him. #bestsermonever
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An encounter with God is about showing you what you must turn from, but also who you turn to. #bestsermonever
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What’s beautiful about being in Christ is it’s a consistent road of being untwisted. #bestsermonever
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God never deals with symptoms, he always deals with root issues. #bestsermonever
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- If you can get yourself saved, you don’t need saving. Salvation is about God coming after people who couldn’t come after him.
- God’ll use all kinds of crazy, twisted people, but God untwists them, and unbinds them. What’s beautiful about being in Christ is it’s a consistent road of being untwisted.
- Jesus Christ didn’t just come to judge your mess. He’s come now to give you life and life more abundantly, to give you a relationship that you never had with him, never had with God through him. And God’s wrath is satisfied on the cross so that our mess, past, present, and future, was placed on him. And when the wrath of God was poured out on him, our mess was dealt with in the sense of eternal penalty.
More from Dr. Mason
Why Jesus Demands Your Life
Dr. Mason spoke to students at the Resurgence College Conference in December 2011 (via the Resurgence).
The Ultimate Shepherd
From the Resurgence’s Advance 09 conference.
Interviews
Interview from 2008 with Darrin Patrick for the Text + Context series on the Resurgence.
You don’t need to conform to search for the truth
Interview with Trip Lee and Lecrae about the view of the gospel in the traditional African American church (via the Resurgence).
Gospel-centered hip-hop
Another interview with Trip Lee and Lecrae (via The Gospel Coalition).
Other resources
- Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole, B&H Books, 2013
- On the Resurgence
- On Twitter
- Thriving, an urban resource collaborative where Dr. Mason serves as president
Bonus
The core values of Dr. Mason’s church Epiphany Fellowship presented hip-hop style.
